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Fantasy Proleague Round 5 Preview
First, congratulations doubleupgradeobbies! for winning Round 4 with a final score of 183, 10 above the 2nd place SKT team (HotBid made teams for all the pro teams). Check out the Round 4 thread for any information on that.
There aren't many changes this round, the only one really being a minor reduction in team scoring (as we saw last round they dominated the scoring, partly as a result of their scoring boost and partly a result of all the 3-0 matches we saw); this should bring team scoring more in line with players.
Summary:
- You choose 6 players & 1 team that score points when they play well.
- You pick 3 players that lose you points when they play well.
- Players & teams can be traded between weeks for those valued less than them.
Scoring
Player Scoring:
Non-Ace Lineup Appearance: 1 Point
Game Win (Ace included): 2 Points
Game Loss (Ace included): -1 Points
Ace Match Appearance: 2 Points
3-Game Win Streak: 1 Point
6-Game Win Streak: 2 Points
9-Game Win Streak: 3 Points
Break Another's Streak: 1 Point
Team Win: 1 Point
Team Scoring:
3-0 Victory: 7 Points
3-1 Victory: 5 Points
3-2 Victory: 4 Points
2-3 Defeat: 1 Point
1-3 Defeat: -1 Points
0-3 Defeat: -2 Points
Team Selection
Just like last round you will be forming a Main Team consisting of 6 players (1 designated captain, used for tie breakers) and 1 Proleague team costing a maximum of 30 points who will contributed points to your team based on their performance. New to this round however is the addition of a Anti Team, this consists of 3 players costing a Minimum of 13 points; your Anti Team players will be subtracting their point total from your total score (time to start looking for those overpriced players heading in to a slump). Note that the Anti Team and Anti Team selections are not related to each other, you may not however have a player on both your Main Team and Anti Team (you're not stupid right?). Your Main Team must still follow the rule of having one of each race; however the Anti Team is not limited by this restriction so you can pick 3 Protoss players if you so wish.
Trading
Again, just like last round, you will have an oppurtunity each week to trade players from both your Main and Anti teams. Unlike last season however, instead of Semioldguy generating a list of possible trades, each player will have a Trade Value that will fluctuate based on their performance over the course of the round and will start at their cost. Between weeks you can trade any player on your Main Team for someone with a lower (or equal) Adjusted Trade Value. Anti Team trading is the same except you must trade for someone of higher value. Trades are made using an Adjusted Trade Value which takes into account how many games each player has left. You will be limited to a maximum of 2 Main Team trades and 1 Anti Team trade per week and you can not trade away your captain from your Main Team; also, your Main Team must still contain one player of each race.
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Trade Value = (P / (4.56 / 11)) / M * M/11 + C * (11 - M)/11
P = Player's points.
M = number of matches played.
C = Player's original cost
4.56 is the number of points a 1 point cost player is expected to score over the entire round
11 is the total number of matches each team plays in a round.
(4.56 / 11 ~= .41)
Basically, this is figuring out what a player's point cost would be given their current performance (ie someone scoring 4.56 points in one game would have a cost of 11) this is then weighted with their original cost; the weights are percentage of games played for the "new" cost and percentage of games left for the original cost. I hope this makes sense, if not feel free to ask questions.
As an example let's say
Leta (9 cost) plays in two matches the first week going 1-0 with a Team win in the first match and 2-0 in the second with an ace win and team win (4 pts 1st game, 9 pts 2nd game [3 wins * 2, 2 lineups * 1, 1 ace * 2, 2 team wins * 1, 1 Three Win Streak * 1]) = 13 pts for week 1 with two matches played out of 11 for the round:
T = (13 / .41) / 2 * 2/11 + 9 * (11-2/11)
T = 31.4 / 2 * 2/11 + 9 * 9/11 = ?
T = 15.7 * 2/11 + 9 * 9/11 = (At this point we can see he has an estimated cost of 15.7 if he continues on this scoring trend whereas his original cost is 9--these are then weighted based on games played and games left)
T = 2.85 + 7.4
Trade Value = 10.21 (Leta's trade value at the end of week one with him scoring 13 pts over 2 games)
Trade Value is directly comparable with a players original cost thus someone with a Trade Value of 9 is rated the same as a player that started at Cost 9.
Adjusted Trade Value is what is used in the actual trade calculations and is simply Trade Value * Number of Games Left.
Thus,Leta at 10.21 with 9 games left would have an Adjusted Trade Value of 91.89; say 
free plays one game in week 1 and his new trade value is 9.5 (just picked this randomly fyi), free with 10 games left would have an Adjusted Trade Value of 95. Notice how free's Adjusted Trade Value is higher than Leta's because he has the extra game left to score additional points in.
P = Player's points.
M = number of matches played.
C = Player's original cost
4.56 is the number of points a 1 point cost player is expected to score over the entire round
11 is the total number of matches each team plays in a round.
(4.56 / 11 ~= .41)
Basically, this is figuring out what a player's point cost would be given their current performance (ie someone scoring 4.56 points in one game would have a cost of 11) this is then weighted with their original cost; the weights are percentage of games played for the "new" cost and percentage of games left for the original cost. I hope this makes sense, if not feel free to ask questions.
As an example let's say
Leta (9 cost) plays in two matches the first week going 1-0 with a Team win in the first match and 2-0 in the second with an ace win and team win (4 pts 1st game, 9 pts 2nd game [3 wins * 2, 2 lineups * 1, 1 ace * 2, 2 team wins * 1, 1 Three Win Streak * 1]) = 13 pts for week 1 with two matches played out of 11 for the round:T = (13 / .41) / 2 * 2/11 + 9 * (11-2/11)
T = 31.4 / 2 * 2/11 + 9 * 9/11 = ?
T = 15.7 * 2/11 + 9 * 9/11 = (At this point we can see he has an estimated cost of 15.7 if he continues on this scoring trend whereas his original cost is 9--these are then weighted based on games played and games left)
T = 2.85 + 7.4
Trade Value = 10.21 (
Leta's trade value at the end of week one with him scoring 13 pts over 2 games)Trade Value is directly comparable with a players original cost thus someone with a Trade Value of 9 is rated the same as a player that started at Cost 9.
Adjusted Trade Value is what is used in the actual trade calculations and is simply Trade Value * Number of Games Left.
Thus,
Leta at 10.21 with 9 games left would have an Adjusted Trade Value of 91.89; say free plays one game in week 1 and his new trade value is 9.5 (just picked this randomly fyi), free with 10 games left would have an Adjusted Trade Value of 95. Notice how free's Adjusted Trade Value is higher than Leta's because he has the extra game left to score additional points in.There is also (like last round) the -1 points per player trade made.
Groups
This round you will also be able to join groups to be able to compare your results with a smaller subset of the players, for example there might be a staff group, a first time fpl player's group; anything you want to group by.
Price List
Player prices:
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Leta 9Bisu 9
Jaedong 9EffOrt 7great 7Calm 7fantasy 7HoGiL 7hyvaa 7Thezerg 6Horang2 6YellOw[ArnC] 6Flash 6Violet 6ZerO 6Kal 6OversKy 6sKyHigh 5Stork 5UpMaGiC 5BeSt 5HiyA 5HyuN 5Light 5Kwanro 5Jaehoon 5JangBi 5Pure 4SangHo 4Sea.Really 4firebathero 4GoRush 4Lomo 4Anytime 4Sea[Shield] 4Shine[kaL] 4Casy 4Movie 4BackHo 3free 3Hyuk 3Modesty 3RorO 3sAviOr 3Iris 3Canata 3MVP 3fOrGG 2go.go 2GuemChi 2July 2keke 2Much 2PianO 2Reach 2Shuttle 2Tempest 2HoeJJa 2Hwasin 2oDin 2Orion 2Juni 2BoxeR 2britney 2Clay 2DaezanG 2Doctor.K 2HakSoo 2herb 2iloveoov 2Justin 2Mind 2Mong 2MuJuK 2Saint 2Tazza 2type-b 2815 2BaBy 2Devil 2ggaemo 2Hydra 2Luxury 2Memory 2Nbs 2Notice 2Chavi 1Dongrae 1Favian 1FrOzean 1Killer 1Miracle 1NeeL[fOu] 1PerfectMan 1Spear 1ToSky 1yoOn 1Young 1910 1Action 1Air 1Classic 1ClouD 1GosI[Flying] 1han 1Haran 1koala 1NaDa 1Peace 1PuMa 1Pusan 1Shark 1Stats 1Suny 1Tester 1XellOs 1YellOw 1Bogus 1by.hero 1Child 1Crazy-Hydra 1FireFist 1GanZi 1GGPlay 1Last 1Rock 1SaiR 1Shine 1SoO 1SoulKey 1Special 1Trap 1ZergBong 1Team Prices
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